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What POD or set of POD's (big or small) would have to happen in the Post-Stalinist era in order for the Soviet Union to avoid its stagnation, decline and eventual collapse? What would help it along with its satellites survive to the present day and become highly developed states comparable to that of Western Europe and the United States? Any reforms that were never passed and men who never became leaders that could have helped?
I can only think of a few;
Lysenko is discredited immediately after Stalin's death resulting in a more successful Virgin Lands program
Brezhnev never rises to power avoiding the stagnation that occurred under him
Widespread acceptance of the ideas and reforms of the Prague Spring throughout all the Eastern Bloc countries